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  1. Taking London to the World: Robert Paul Shows His Native City in Motion (2019)

    Subject
    Film studies; History

    Second in a series of three lectures in which Professor Ian Christie explores key moments in the portrayal of London in cinema over the past century, and what these portrayals may mean locally and...

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  2. Vanity Fair (2018)

    Director
    James Strong
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (7 x 60 minutes), £24.99

    Thackeray’s literary classic is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, and follows Becky Sharp as she attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English Society. Her story...

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  3. Gothic London: Recreating the Ancient City on Screen (2018)

    Subject
    Film studies; History

    First in a series of three lectures in which Professor Ian Christie explores key moments in the portrayal of London in cinema over the past century, and what these portrayals may mean locally and...

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  4. Of Fathers and Sons (2018)

    Director
    Talal Derki
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 102 minutes), $22.46

    Director Talal Derki returns to his Syrian homeland and gains the trust of a radical Islamist family. His camera focuses primarily on the children, providing a rare insight into what it means to grow up with...

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  5. Expedition New Earth (2017)

    Subject
    Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 2 x 50 minutes), £390.00

    Stephen Hawking believed that we have just 100 years to populate a new planet if the human species is to survive, but is there another planet out there that we could call home? In this BBC documentary,...

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  6. King Lear (2017 Audio)

    Director
    Barnaby Edwards
    Producer
    David Richardson
    Subject
    Drama; Politics & government; Psychology; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Audio (CD Download, 180), £16.99 (CD), £14.99 (Download).

    In ancient Britain, the elderly King Lear plans for the future of his estate by putting his three daughters to the test. By indulging his vanity, the King delivers a terrible injustice that wrecks havoc on...

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  7. Quest (2017)

    Director
    Jonathan Olshefski
    Subject
    American Studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 105 minutes), $295.00

    Filmed with vérité intimacy over the course of nearly a decade, Quest is the portrait of the Rainey family living in North Philadelphia. Beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency, Quest Rainey and his...

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  8. 100 Fishponds Road: Eastville Workhouse’s Paupers Remembered (2016)

    Director
    Ben Pike
    Subject
    History; Social Studies

    In 2015 the Eastville Workhouse Memorial Group in Bristol unveiled a memorial for the 4,084 paupers buried in a mass grave at Rosemary Green. In this short video, Dr Roger Ball and a group of local residents...

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  9. Remarkable Miss North, The (2016)

    aka: Kew’s Forgotten Queen

    Director
    Irene Antoniades
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £13.95

    A BBC4 documentary about the unknown story of Marianne North, one of the most prolific botanical artists of the Victorian age. North embarked on a project that changed the face of botanical research. The...

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  10. Aliens: The Big Think (2016)

    Subject
    Natural history; Space science

    Astronomer Royal Martin Rees and scientists take up the search for extra-terrestrials, exploring the theory that we should be searching for machines, not organic life, beyond the solar system. [59 minutes]

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